SSC | Research Priorities DMS

North Pacific Fishery Management Council: Research Priorities
SSC | Research Priorities DMS
Query List
Reports
Research Priorities Query and Records List
Plan Teams
Joint Groundfish PT
Crab PT
Scallop PT
Council Actions
Salmon bycatch
Steller sea lion protection
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Habitat Issues
Bycatch reduction
Economic impacts
Ecosystem impacts
Harvest specifications
Pending
Rebuilding plans
Salmon PSC avoidance
Crab PSC and bycatch avoidance
Halibut PSC avoidance
SSL protection and recovery
Halibut allocations
HAPC
Arctic FMP
Observer Program
Crab rationalization
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
General
Other
Ecosystem Area
Gulf of Alaska
Bering Sea
Aleutian Islands
Arctic
Council Priority
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Urgent
Important
Strategic
Pending
SSC Priority
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Urgent
Important
Strategic
Pending
Research Status
Pending
No action
Listed on RFPs
Partially underway
Underway
Completed
Duplicates
Has Duplicates
Unresolved
Resolved
ID
Title
Council Priority
SSC Priority
Research Status
Ecosystem Area
Related Council Action
Plan Teams
Keywords
Areas
Has Duplicates
Duplicates Resolved
Joint Groundfish PT Priority
Crab PT Priority
Scallop PT Priority
Approved
228
Monitor subsistence harvest (patterns, norms, quantities) in communities affected by Council actions.
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management, Anthropology, Communities, Crab, Groundfish, Subsistence
False
Important
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
218
Survey capability for forage fish
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Important
Approved
226
Monitor the economic effects from fishery policy changes on coastal communities.
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Economic impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management, Economics, Anthropology, Communities, Crab, Groundfish
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
186
Collect and maintain zooplankton and meroplankton biomass and community composition time series
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Urgent
Strategic
Approved
187
Continue to develop and improve the use of indicator-based ecosystem assessments throughout the range of the Council's managed ...
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
190
Collect and maintain time series of ocean pH
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes
False
Urgent
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
192
Collect, analyze, and monitor diet information
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Basic research on trophic interactions
False
Important
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
144
District-wide survey for demersal shelf rockfish in Southeast Alaska
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Rockfish
False
Important
Approved
145
Continuation of State and Federal annual and biennial surveys
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Crab, Forage Species, Groundfish, Scallop
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Pending
150
Maintain the core biological and oceanographic data (e.g., biophysical moorings, diet data, zooplankton, age 0 surveys, benthic ...
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Stock Assessment, Crab, Groundfish
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Urgent
Approved
159
Evaluate interactions between fisheries and pinnipeds
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Protected Species
False
Approved
160
Assess vital rates of Steller sea lions
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Steller sea lion protection
Protected Species
False
Approved
161
Assess the health of Stellar sea lions
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Steller sea lion protection
Protected Species
False
Approved
165
Conduct routine surveys of subsistence in the northern Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Bering Sea, Arctic
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Anthropology, Humans, Communities, Subsistence
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
612
Maintain observer program
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Observer Program
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT, Scallop PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
552
Expand statewide scallop survey
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Pending
735
Fishery monitoring and catch accounting
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT, Scallop PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Bycatch Issues, Statistics
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
207
Collect and analyze fishery effort and observer data for scallops
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
209
Continue to collect guided angler sector data for the halibut fishery
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea
Halibut allocations
Fishery Management
False
Approved
249
Monitor the movement of Steller sea lions and northern fur seals
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Protected Species, Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes
False
Approved
611
Collection of socio-economic information
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
General
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT, Scallop PT
Economics, Anthropology
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
171
Acquire basic life history information (e.g., natural mortality, growth, size at maturity) for data-poor stocks
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT, Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Urgent
Important
Approved
172
Develop and validate aging methods for crabs.
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
173
Expand studies to identify stock and management boundaries
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Scallop PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Urgent
Approved
217
Impact of fisheries on benthic habitat and trophic interactions
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Habitat Issues
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishing Effects on Habitat, Crab, Marine Mammal
False
Important
Important
Approved
227
Improve estimation of fishery interactions with non-target groundfish, and prohibited species.
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Urgent
Approved
174
Develop spatially explicit stock assessment models
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Important
Approved
176
Refine methods to incorporate uncertainty into harvest strategies
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Important
Urgent
Approved
178
Develop a framework and collect economic information
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Economic impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Fishery Management
False
Urgent
Urgent
Approved
179
Conduct pre- and post-implementation studies of the benefits and costs, and their distribution, associated with dedicated ...
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Economic impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Fishery Management, Crab, Groundfish, Halibut
False
Urgent
Urgent
Approved
189
Develop stock-specific ecosystem indicators and incorporate into stock assessments
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Crab, Groundfish
False
Urgent
Urgent
Approved
197
Develop methodologies to monitor for new/emerging diseases and/or parasites among exploited species and higher trophic levels ...
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Strategic
Important
Approved
202
Improve estimation of total removals
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Important
Urgent
Approved
203
Improve discard mortality rate estimates for scallops
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment
False
Urgent
Approved
146
Improve surveys in untrawlable habitat, particularly for rockfish, Atka mackerel, and sculpins
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Baseline Habitat Assessment, Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Function of Habitat, Habitat Mapping, SE Alaska, Groundfish, Rockfish
False
Important
Approved
148
Spatial distribution, habitat requirements, and movement of crabs relative to life history events and fishing
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Urgent
Approved
154
Pacific cod stock assessment for the Aleutian Islands
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
155
Evaluation of salmon PSC mitigation measures
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Urgent
Approved
156
Improve knowledge for salmon PSC impact assessment
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Urgent
Approved
157
Improve methods of monitoring fishery interactions
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Observer Program
Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management, Halibut, Charter, Groundfish
False
Urgent
Approved
162
Quantify killer whale predation of Steller sea lions (M)
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Aleutian Islands
Steller sea lion protection
Protected Species
False
Approved
166
Estimate scallop stock abundance
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Ecosystem Modeling, Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Fishing Effects on Habitat
False
Strategic
Approved
167
Alternative approaches to acquire fishery-independent abundance data for for unsurveyed crab stocks.
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Urgent
Approved
170
Quantitative reproductive index for the BSAI crab stocks
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Important
Approved
533
Explore optimal sampling strategies and geospatial approaches for time series of survey data
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Stock Assessment, Crab, Groundfish
False
Important
Urgent
Approved
534
Continue to develop technical interaction model for BSAI MSE
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Pending
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
631
Genetics of Northern Bering Sea Pacific cod
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Biology - Genetics
False
Urgent
Approved
692
Conduct ethnographic research and collect information on the indirect effects of the Area 2C and 3A charter and commercial ...
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska
Halibut allocations
Anthropology, Halibut, Charter
False
Approved
711
Identify best practices for catch estimation for large bycatch species
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment, Bycatch Issues, Statistics
False
Urgent
Approved
712
Gap Analyses on loss of biological samples due to implementation of EM
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Observer Program
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Urgent
Approved
691
Develop comparable measures of net value, total value, and economic impacts for the Area 2C and 3A charter and commercial ...
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska
Halibut allocations
Economics, Halibut, Charter
False
Approved
556
Re-evaluate the location and temporal structure of Herring Savings Areas
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT
Bycatch Issues, Pollock
False
Important
Approved
731
Norton Sound Red King Crab case study
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Crab PT
Crab
False
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
208
Explore factors that contribute to year class strength for managed resources
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Pending
Important
Approved
211
Benefits and costs of directed halibut catch and halibut PSC utilization
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Halibut allocations
Fishery Management
False
Approved
213
Assess the impact of the displacement of the groundfish fleet on Northern fur seals
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Protected Species
False
Approved
235
Investigate gear modifications and changes in fishing practices to reduce bycatch and PSC
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Protected Species
False
Urgent
Important
Approved
239
Assess the extent of the distribution of corals
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Joint Groundfish PT
Habitat Mapping
False
Strategic
Approved
364
Updated sperm whale stock assessment
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Protected Species
False
Approved
365
Retrospective analysis of the impact of Chinook PSC avoidance measures on communities of western Alaska
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Protected Species
False
Approved
366
Continue to investigate time variation and the shape of fishery and survey selectivity models
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem Modeling
False
Important
Urgent
Approved
381
Effects of changes to the observer program
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Observer Program
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Statistics
False
Urgent
Approved
383
Determine quantitative indicators of spatial structure, particular for walleye pollock and Pacific cod
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment, Pollock
False
Important
Approved
385
Study Pacific halibut PSC, bycatch, and discard behavior in fisheries
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Halibut PSC avoidance
Protected Species
False
Approved
388
Study temporal and spatial patterns in size-at-age of Pacific halibut
Urgent
Urgent
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Halibut allocations
Stock Assessment, Halibut
False
Approved
491
Assess dependence and impacts of halibut management actions on communities
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Halibut
False
Approved
492
Investigate factors underlying fishery responses to halibut PSC caps
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Fishery Management, Bycatch Issues, Halibut
False
Approved
493
Examine the relative importance of historical closed areas in the vicinity of the Pribilof Islands as juvenile halibut nursery ...
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Bering Sea
Habitat Issues
Function of Habitat, Biology - Early Life History, Pribilofs, Halibut
False
Approved
531
Collect growth data for Bering Sea crab stocks
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Stock Assessment
False
Approved
551
Estimate scallop survey catchability
Urgent
Urgent
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment
False
Urgent
Approved
592
Maturity estimates for Bering Sea and Aleutian Island crab stocks
Urgent
Urgent
No action
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Stock Assessment, Crab
False
Urgent
Approved
214
Evaluate the impact of seabird bycatch in fisheries on bird populations, and methods to reduce
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Protected Species
False
Approved
216
Assess whether Bering Sea canyons are habitats of particular concern for managed resources
Important
Important
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Habitat Issues
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Evaluate habitats of particular concern
False
Strategic
Important
Approved
219
Monitor skate egg case concentrations every 2 to 3 years using non-invasive research design, such as in situ observation ...
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Strategic
Approved
220
Research on survey analysis techniques for species that exhibit patchy distributions
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Important
Important
Approved
222
Improve estimates of natural mortality (M) for Pacific cod.
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
180
Economic, social, and cultural valuation research on protected species
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Protected Species
False
Approved
182
Evaluate the effectiveness of current and alternative Council PSC/bycatch reduction initiatives
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Bycatch reduction
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Bycatch Issues, Crab, Halibut, Salmon
False
Urgent
Important
Approved
183
Research the role of habitat in population dynamics and ecosystem processes
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Function of Habitat
False
Important
Important
Approved
184
Evaluate efficacy of habitat closure areas and habitat recovery
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Function of Habitat
False
Strategic
Important
Approved
188
Develop indicator-based ecosystem assessments for AI (in progress), GOA, Arctic.
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Urgent
Approved
204
Tagging studies of Aleutian Islands Pacific cod and Atka mackerel
Important
Important
Partially underway
Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
205
Age determination methods for Pacific cod, Pacific sleeper sharks, and spiny dogfish
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
206
Biomass indices and alternate methodologies for lowest tier groundfish species
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Strategic
Approved
147
Life history research on data poor or non-recovering crab stocks
Important
Important
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Fishery Management, Biology - Early Life History, Crab, Crab
False
Urgent
Approved
149
Improve handling mortality rate estimates for crab
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Strategic
Approved
151
Develop a spatially-explicit model for BSAI pollock
Important
Important
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
153
Study vertical distribution of Pacific cod to better understand catchability
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
158
Research ecosystem indicators and their thresholds for inclusion in ecosystem-level management strategy evaluation.
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Urgent
Strategic
Approved
163
Conduct routine fish, crab, and oceanographic surveys in the Arctic Ocean
Important
Important
Partially underway
Arctic
Arctic FMP
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Baseline Habitat Assessment
False
Urgent
Important
Approved
164
Effects of trawling on crab and benthic communities
Important
Important
Underway
Bering Sea
Habitat Issues
Crab PT
Fishing Effects on Habitat
False
Important
Approved
169
Studies on factors that affect catchability particularly for King, Snow, and Tanner crab
Important
Important
Underway
Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Important
Approved
451
Arrowtooth flounder stock structure and movement
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Strategic
Approved
511
Computerized image analysis of current camera sled data for scallops
Important
Important
Completed
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Scallop
False
Urgent
Approved
614
Expansion of catch in areas database to include BSAI and GOA crab and scallop fishing.
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Crab PT, Scallop PT
Fishing Effects on Habitat
False
Important
Important
Approved
615
Evaluate the interactions between fisheries and killer whales and sperm whales
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment, Fishery Management, Groundfish, Halibut, Marine Mammal
False
Important
Approved
671
Characterize expected changes in benthic production due to climate change
Important
Important
No action
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT
Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Crab
False
Important
Approved
513
Evaluate extent and importance of parasites in scallop populations
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea
Ecosystem impacts
Scallop PT
Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Scallop
False
Important
Approved
713
Evaluate the spillover in the BSAI Pacifc cod fishery from GOA heat-wave related cod TAC reduction
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment, Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Groundfish
False
Important
Approved
714
Evaluate impacts on Northern Bering Sea Communities from Pacific cod and pollock shifts northward
Important
Important
No action
Bering Sea
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Joint Groundfish PT
Economics, Anthropology
False
Important
Approved
715
Physiological responses of crab to climate stressors
Important
Important
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT
Biology - Early Life History, Crab, Crab
False
Important
Approved
553
Population structure of scallops
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment, Scallop
False
Important
Approved
554
Molt and mate timing for Norton Sound red king crab
Important
Important
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
555
Herring genetics on overwintering and spawning grounds
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT
Bycatch Issues
False
Important
Approved
210
Develop bioeconomic models
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Important
Approved
212
Develop methods to estimate sea lion abundance
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Steller sea lion protection
Protected Species
False
Approved
230
Examine social and economic interactions between coastal communities and commercial and recreational fisheries
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management, Crab, Groundfish
False
Important
Important
Approved
231
Retrospective analysis of the impact of Chinook salmon PSC avoidance measures on the BSAI pollock fishery
Important
Important
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Bycatch reduction
Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Urgent
Approved
237
Improved habitat maps
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Habitat Mapping
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
240
Develop a multivariate index of the climate forcing of the Bering Sea shelf
Important
Important
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Important
Important
Approved
241
Develop bottom and water column temperature database and indices
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Important
Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved
245
Assess the impact of increases in recovering whale populations on lower trophic level energy pathways
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Strategic
Approved
246
Cooperative research efforts to supplement existing at-sea surveys that provide seasonal, species-specific information on ...
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Protected Species
False
Approved
362
Monitoring potential water quality impacts on scallops
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Scallop PT
Baseline Habitat Assessment
False
Important
Approved
363
Area-specific variability in scallop population processes
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Function of Habitat
False
Important
Approved
367
Continue to improve crab stock assessment methodology with respect to uncertainty
Important
Important
Underway
Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Stock Assessment, Crab
False
Approved
382
Investigate in situ methods of tagging species that experience barotrauma
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Strategic
Approved
250
Conduct ecosystem structure studies
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Basic research on trophic interactions
False
Pending
Strategic
Approved
251
Modeling studies of ecosystem productivity in the different FMP areas
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Scallop PT, Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem Modeling, Crab, Groundfish
False
Strategic
Important
Strategic
Approved
387
Determine effects of migration on the Pacific halibut population and management
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Halibut allocations
Protected Species
False
Approved
389
Investigate ecosystem effects and inter-species interactions of halibut
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea
Halibut allocations
Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem Modeling, Halibut
False
Important
Approved
431
Develop tools for analyzing coastal community vulnerability to fisheries management changes
Important
Important
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Important
Important
Approved
472
Evaluate causes of variable meat size, undersized meats in scallops
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other
Scallop PT
Fishery Management, Function of Habitat, SE Alaska, Scallop
False
Important
Approved
532
Natural mortality estimation for crab stocks
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Stock Assessment
False
Approved
453
Cod density in untrawlable areas in the AI
Important
Important
Underway
Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
454
Sculpin natural mortality, seasonal food habits
Important
Important
No action
Gulf of Alaska
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Strategic
Approved
455
Shark aging, size at maturity, natural mortality
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
571
Age validation for scallop shells
Important
Important
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
General
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment, Scallop
False
Important
Approved
215
Determine potential impacts of fishing activities on marine mammals
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Protected Species
False
Approved
537
Identification of best practices for long term storage of ageing structures.
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Pending
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Strategic
Approved
223
Develop and evaluate global climate change models (GCM) or down-scaled climate variability scenarios to assess impacts to ...
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT, Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Strategic
Important
Important
Approved
224
Climate and oceanographic information covering a wider range of seasons
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT, Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment
False
Strategic
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
225
Develop projection models to evaluate management strategies under varying climate, ecological, and economic conditions and ...
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Other
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Stock Assessment, Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Ecology/Modeling, Economics, Communities
False
Important
Urgent
Approved
175
Develop age-structured models for scallop assessment
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Scallop PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
177
Conduct prospective and retrospective analyses of changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of fishing effort in response ...
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management, Bycatch Issues
False
Important
Important
Approved
191
Assess whether changes in pH and temperature would affect managed species, upper level predators, and lower trophic levels. ...
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes
False
Important
Important
Approved
193
Improve species identification
Strategic
Strategic
Completed
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Important
Approved
194
Identification and integration of archived data
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
General
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
196
Genetics, population dynamics, and management implications of hybridization between Tanner and snow crab in the Bering Sea. ...
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Bering Sea
Harvest specifications
Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Approved
198
Initiate and expand non-market valuation research of habitat, ecosystem services, and passive use considerations
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Other
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
200
Monitor contaminant flux and loads in lower and higher trophic levels, and assess potential for impact on vital rates.
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
613
Maintain and update coupled biophysical projections for the North Pacific
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Ecosystem Modeling
False
Strategic
Important
Approved
221
Collect maturity scans during fisheries that target spawning fish
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring
False
Strategic
Approved
732
LK and TK data collection
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Fishery Dependent Community Assessments
Anthropology
False
Approved
733
Climate change: Develop predictive tools to inform management options related to resilience and adaptation.
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Ecosystem impacts
Ecosystem Modeling, Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Approved
734
Conduct an assessment of the Council’s Bering Sea management with respect to EBFM best practices.
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Bering Sea
Ecosystem impacts
Ecosystem Modeling
False
Approved
494
Investigate skate egg concentration areas as EFH and HAPC
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska
Habitat Issues
Joint Groundfish PT
Function of Habitat
False
Strategic
Approved
233
Develop an ongoing database of product inventories
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Economic impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
234
Analyze current determinants of demand for principal seafood products
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Economic impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Fishery Management
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
238
Develop a GIS relational database for habitat, to include a historical time series of the spatial intensity of interactions ...
Strategic
Strategic
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT, Scallop PT
Habitat Mapping
False
Pending
Important
Pending
Approved
242
Collect and maintain primary production time series
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Important
Strategic
Approved
244
Collect and maintain time-series data on the community composition, production and biomass of benthic invertebrate and vertebrate ...
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
247
Assess the relative importance of non-commercially exploited species to human communities
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Economic impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Crab, Groundfish
False
Strategic
Strategic
Approved
248
Measure and monitor large scale fish composition
Strategic
Strategic
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT
Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes
False
Strategic
Approved
368
Develop a simulation model of Steller sea lion fishery interactions
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Steller sea lion protection
Protected Species
False
Approved
386
Investigate long term effects of fishing on Pacific halibut
Strategic
Strategic
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Halibut allocations
Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Biology - Genetics, Halibut
False
Approved
361
Effects of Ocean Acidification on Scallops
Strategic
Strategic
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Habitat Issues
Scallop PT
Baseline Habitat Assessment
False
Urgent
Approved
390
Population status of AI harbor seals
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Aleutian Islands
Other mammal/seabird interactions
Marine Mammal
False
Approved
452
Dusky Rockfish and Shortspine Thornyhead genetics research for improved population structure
Strategic
Strategic
No action
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT
Stock Assessment, Biology - Genetics
False
Strategic
Approved
535
Development and evaluation of data poor and data moderate methods
Strategic
Strategic
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Harvest specifications
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Stock Assessment
False
Important
Strategic
Approved
536
Evaluate incorporation of climate change impacts into stock assessments
Strategic
Strategic
Underway
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands
Ecosystem impacts
Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT
Ecosystem Modeling, Stock Assessment, Crab, Groundfish
False
Important
Strategic
Approved
651
Thermally marked otolith project to support PSC salmon stock composition in the Gulf of Alaska
Pending
Pending
Partially underway
Gulf of Alaska
Salmon bycatch
Bycatch Issues, Salmon
False
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